History Overview
Union Heights was established 1910. It was the former site of the Allen Farm and Belmont Plantation. The Union Heights community was developed as a residential community surronded by industrial companies. The first north area jail was built in 1924 at 2228 Meeting Street Road. The structure is still standing in a resident's backyard. In 1993, Union Heights was designated as an Enterprise Community. The community was annexed into the City of North Charleston in 1997.
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The History
Union Heights is one of the earliest predominantly African American communities from slavery time in Charleston County, SC, that still exists today. It was fully incorporated as part of the city of North Charleston in 1997; this place began in 1672 with England's land grants to Lord and 1 or 2 servants.
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In the late 1800s, the late Reverend Simon L. Taylor had a Godly vision, a vision that turned into reality when he bought a house from Mr. Frasier. After this major accomplishment, Rev. Taylor assembled followers of Christ within the Union Heights Community to form a congregation, and as a result organized a church on Beech Ave. A place of serene escape.
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earned Vote
Mary Davis established a Civil rights School in her beauty shop on Arbutus Avenue in Union Heights to teach citizens to read the Constitution. She had been an 18 year old beauty school student in New York when she learned that she had civil rights. She was taught there what she could do about those rights without going to jail.